‘Paper Daughter’ Director Cami Kwan On Turning An Angel Island Family History Into A Handcrafted Stop-Motion Film, Annecy

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For writer, director and animator Cami Kwan, Paper Daughter began with a story that had lived in her family for generations. Inspired by her great-grandmother Joy Dep Chan, who immigrated from China through Angel Island in 1926 by assuming another girl’s identity, the stop-motion animated short explores the sacrifices Chinese immigrants made in pursuit of […]